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Adding materials to the 3D solid to give it a real-world look

Adding materials to the 3D solid to give it a real-world look - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: 3D Modeling for Mechanical Designs

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Adding materials to the 3D solid to give it a real-world look

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- We're staying in our metal plate dot DWG file. And in the previous video what we did was we added some fillets and some chamfers and you can see I've added chamfers now to all of the holes. So they're all counters sunk, as if they're ready for a screw or a bolt. Now the last thing we're going to look at in our little project is at the moment we're just using the color of the layer which is the objects layer and it's red. So you see that's very red, in our view there in our drawing area. I can change the visual style from x-ray, now. I can click up here and perhaps go for something like realistic, which obviously gives me a lovely finish. You can see the shine there and you can see our fillets and our chamfers beautifully, but it's using that red color. Now if I leave it at realistic, that's great. It looks very realistic. It looks like a nice anodized aluminium plate, for example, or as your Americans call it, aluminum.…

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